What does Denise Jones know about shame and honour?

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UPDATING on the contaminated Environmental Health of Tower Hamlets Council -2

1725 Hrs GMT

London
Tuesday
25 September 2012
By
Muhammad Haque

The atmosphere in the Tower Hamlets Council Chamber on Wednesday 19 September 2012 was truly toxic. Contaminated.
Hatred and hostility was fierce.
So who was the target of the hatred and the hostility?
Who else but “other councillors” in the same Chamber.
And that pillar! The pillar did not help at all
As one of those who stood up and spoke during at least the “public” “presentations ” pointed out, she could not see the memeb4r5 of the public who was presenting a concern
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Why couldn’t she see him?
Because of the pillar.
There is a pillar bang in the middle of the floor of the Council,  Chamber that divides the seated councillors in a most awkward, indecent way. Undemocratic, inelegant way.
Like the endless numbers of stinking staircases cases that are littered across Tower Hamlets borough with the  refuse of the anti-social elements, the pillar in the middle of the Council Chamber stalks everyone struggling to address in a decent way. In an unobstructed way.


Rabina Khan, as she stood up to speak, came across as  too elegant in her outlook to get too hung up on the unsightly sight of the pillar that was blocking her vision, irritating her and deviating her focus away from what she wanted to speak and get across. Whatever that was in accordance with the due rules of a really democratically devised, drafted and agreed Tower Hamlets Council Constitution.

But then why should it be left to a single councillor to make that point about the pillar barrier? Why not the entire chamber that should explode in democratic outrage at this barrier?

The answer perhaps lies in the fact that very elegance that came across from Rabina Khan’s particular moment of contribution is absent from the vast majority of what was on offer from the majority of participants seating on either side of the barrier pillar.
Spiel after  empty spiel came forth allegedly about something of substance but carrying none of the rigour nor the relevance that the Poplar Councillors [1920s, Poplar Borough, led by George Lansbury, 1920s East End of London] would represent.

The vacuity and the emptiness of the contributions by speakers at the “Full Council”  on Wednesday 19 September 2012  were truly shocking and offensive to all democratic people observing or rather suffering the evening.

None offended more  than Denise Jones, who claimed that she had been a  councillor for 18 years! No mean feat that! Especially not as seen from the prostrated position of one or so “admirers” that Denise Jones still had in the “public gallery”.

Denise Jones is in no position to give ethical lectures about shame and honour.
And when it comes to her time as “leader” of the Council, she performed so undemocratically that when the time did come for her ouster, not many even pretence tears were shed at her demise

Except in the strangely personality-cult-like dedicated slot carried in the then East London Advertiser, now merged with a Docklands based PR and marketing operon for the Big Business occupiers of the Docklands.
Denise Jones said that she was “ashamed” that Lutfur Rahman was silent and was refusing to answer the questions
I spoke to Lutfur Rahman a day later and he assured me that he deliberately allowed the floor to be taken up by Councillors.
HE said that at cabinet meetings, he, Lutfur, does take a different stance and does speak. I am going to observe some of his cabinet and will come back and report.

Back to Denise Jones and her time as a councillor for 18 years

What does Denise Jones know about shame and honour? 
I shall be seeking evidential answer to this                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       very important question in the next part of this commentary.

[To be continued]

UPDATINg on the contaminated Environmental "Health" of Tower Hamlets Council - 1

0815 [0755] [0730] Hrs GMT London Thursday 13 September 2012.
By © Muhammad Haque.

I was in a conversation at 0013 Hrs GMT this morning with a man from a Bangladeshi community-linked radio outlet based in Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets.
He called me on the contact mobile number [which was working at the time] and asked me about taking part in a programme or more on the particular problems that he had been seeking to highlight and draw the community’s attention to. I shall come to the specifics of those in a later part.

For now, the point is that he called me after watching the satellite channel on SKY 844 where I had been appearing for the previous hour or so. And there I was talking what turned out to be mostly about the deficit in local democracy in Tower Hamlets.
The majority of the callers to the programme, hoisted by Shoaib Choudhury, wanted to focus on the failures of the local Tower Hamlets Council.
It became very clear that the failures of Tower Hamlets Council were in a most ir9inc way the most popular among the callers.

The follow on from that will include a documentary report that I will be doing from Brick Lane tomorrow, Friday 14 September 2012.

That report will focus on the rampant failures of the Tower Hamlets Council’s Environmental Health bureaucracy.

One caller from the Princelet Street, off Brick Lane, gave a new catalogue of anti-social, filthy mess that is left on the doorsteps every week by “visitors” to Brick Lane.
Local councillors know about this from their own experience and from the repeated calls to them by residents who are overwhelmed by the problems caused by the mess.
So how is it that the “Environmental Health” has allowed the health of the local community to be exposed to the mess for so long?

Is it the case the Tower Hamlets Council’s Environmental Health is so diseased that it does not know the difference between a risk to health and a risk-less state of the environment?

To answer this question, I now begin to address the role played by at least one set of the officials in the section in allowing the criminal damage, theft, removal and destruction of the libraries, archives, manuscripts, IT files, storages, IT equipment of the Foundations.

This series of attacks has taken place in the past two weeks.

But the plotting must have lasted longer than a mere fortnight.

A separate legal questionnaire has been sent to the Tower Hamlets Council’s “assistant chief executive [legal]” Isabella Freeman demanding answers on a most urgent basis.

If Isabelle Freeman fails again [she has form] then I shall focus on her past failures item by item here.

If she stops the rot and starts to tell the truth about the attacks then I shall report that too.

A note about the phrase “the Foundations” in this context:
They refer in effect to the University institutions that I have been creating, adding to and supervising.
The Foundations also include the Kay Jordan Foundation, Aadhikar Media Foundation, M K World, All Volunteers News and Khoodeelaar! Plus CBRUK and 40 other similar learning and research and diagnostic initiatives.

[To be included]